Snippy thanks steamer 'london' for brilliantly painting a picture of the soulless mother fucking leeches he portrays. (Snippy feels the same way about their cousins, the no-bill freeloaders. They sleep in the same bed and wallow in each others' fetid shit.)

 

After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, the vampire, He had some awful substance left with which He made a scab.

 

     A scab is a two-legged animal with a cork-screw soul, a water-logged brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

 

     When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the Devil shuts the gates of Hell to keep him out.

 

     No man has a right to scab so long as there is a pool of water to drown his carcass in, or a rope long enough to hang his body with. Judas Iscariot was a gentleman compared with a scab. For betraying his master, he had character enough to hang himself. A scab has not.

 

     Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Judas Iscariot sold his Savior for thirty pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold sold his country for a promise of a commission in the British Army. The modern strikebreaker sells his birthright, his country, his wife, his children and his fellow men for an unfulfilled promise from his employer, trust or corporation.

 

     Esau was a traitor to himself: Judas Iscariot was a traitor to his God; Benedict Arnold was a traitor to his country; a strikebreaker is a traitor to his God, his country, his wife, his family and his class.

 

 

 

mntman wrote:

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Just wondering Steam how long this has been going on..

Better half hadn't heard of it before she retired so I'm

assuming with in the last year or two. Used too know some

of the engineers running that way when I was working but

most of them are gone now too..

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 This has been going on since May 2014, ex cp hoggers and retiree's and other assorted cum guzzling scabs pick up the empties at Roberts Bank and go through CTC and onto SRY track. BNSF crews take over at either 4th ave in Abbotsford or Huntingdon yard, both on the Canadian yard. The union has been trying and fighting it but with no solid info as it is private company they are fighting its hard. combine that with stalling of the LRB by the company it is a tough battle. the hoggers to our info get $85 per hour,( $50 more than us ), run on a quit system and a rrsp ( 401 K) contribution.

The first I heard empty BNSF coal trains from Roberts Bank
coming via Sumas Branch was sometime this sumer and
it was because of trackwork being done on the Bham Sub.
Have the feeling that will become the norm as oil trains
become even more frequent and not enough track space
a day to handle all the traffic. I know the BNSF has been busier
than bees working on the BNSF Bham Sub from the Chuckanut
north to Blaine. Think the Sumas Sub has had a lot of
upgrading as well. Think maybe BNSF and SRY worked out
a deal as these empty coal trains found a "round-a-bout
way of escaping Beautiful British Columbia at Sumas WA.

Have to say the volume we are speaking of is up to 3 empty
BNSF coal trains a day coming from Roberts Bank and taking
the SRY route to Sumas. I would think that an empty coal
train would be an easy assignment as its a 60 mile run to
Sumas. So Steam is this not a run you would bid on.

I'm so sorry Steam. I mean catching an empty BNSF coal train
when the phone rings sounds like a dream come true. My last
years with BNSF were filled with labour strife. The elimation of
every clerks/operator job was on my mind at the time plus having
to relocate to Fort Worthless TX. Hang in there Steam as I
dont know what else to tell you.

Thunderwagon5000 wrote:

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Q.  Has there been any action started to dispute this practice, in the way of a written grievance procedure ?

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 Yes, a formal written grievance ( stage 3 ) has been brought forward to the LRB . Without exact figures ie. pay stub or formal written documentation showing any factual information that the company is using non unionized staff in the rail operations department, its hard to prove. We all know that the lead manager is a fellow named Mike Lovitt, and the operations supervisor is named Reg Hamilton ( my american UP brothers and CSX guys might recognize the name, he worked down there ), but beyond that the trains are actualling running on our line, without any unionized men on board we need documentation. Its not like the company as it is a private corporation can be forced to provide it ! This has to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard of or dealt with